American Vanadium Corp. (AVC – TSX Venture), ("American Vanadium" or the "Company")announces it has signed a licensing agreement with Battelle for use of a mixed acid electrolyte technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ("PNNL") that increases the energy density and operating temperature range of vanadium redox flow batteries. Additionally, as part of a separate agreement, PNNL will independently evaluate the development of American Vanadium's electrolyte, to be produced from its Gibellini Project in Nevada.
La Mancha Resources Inc. (TSX: LMA, hereinafter "La Mancha" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Proven and Probable gold reserves (the "reserves") at its Australian Frog's Leg mine have increased by 36% following the successful completion of a new upgraded mine plan that incorporates the significant resource increase announced in March 2011.
Metals recovery and technologies firm Catalyst Resource Group has completed construction of its laboratory and recovery facility in California. Read more
SGS is pleased to announce the opening of a new, fully equipped minerals services laboratory in Ankara, Turkey that will provide analytical services to the commercial trade and geochemical services sectors. The new Ankara laboratory is strategically located to service …
The Matrix WAMS-S1000 Permissible Wireless Carbon Monoxide (CO) Monitoring Sensor has been listed by Intertek, a US Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). With this listing, the WAMS-S1000 fully complies with 30 CFR 75.351 set forth by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and is the only post-accident, performance-tested, and NRTL-Listed CO sensor on the market today, the company states. Read more
Gekko Systems announced the opening of the company’s Assay Laboratory located in Ballarat. The assets were purchased by Gekko from Balmaine Gold Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Castlemaine Goldfields Ltd (ASX: CGT). Originally established by Lihir Gold, the laboratory is …
Matrix Design Group, a subsidiary of Alliance Resource Partners, has announced that the Matrix WAMS-S1000 Permissible Wireless Carbon Monoxide (CO) Monitoring Sensor has been listed by Intertek, a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL).
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The Matrix WAMS-S1000 Permissible Wireless Carbon Monoxide (CO) Monitoring Sensor has been listed by Intertek, a US Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). With this listing, the WAMS-S1000 fully complies with 30 CFR 75.351 set forth by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and is the only post-accident, performance-tested, and NRTL-Listed CO sensor on the market [...]
SGS is pleased to announce that OceanaGold has awarded SGS New Zealand the contract to supply all analytical laboratory services to its Macraes and Reefton mines in New Zealand. SGS will assume responsibility for laboratory services starting on June 1, …
SGS is pleased to announce that OceanaGold has awarded SGS New Zealand the contract to supply all analytical laboratory services to its Macraes and Reefton mines in New Zealand. SGS will assume responsibility for laboratory services starting on June 1, …
Molycorp has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Molycorp will team-up with Ames to develop new methods of creating commercial-grade rare-earth permanent magnets. Read more
SGS announced plans to open a new multi-purpose laboratory equipped for geochemical and metallurgical testing in Monrovia, Liberia. This new laboratory will be strategically located to service the growing needs of the minerals exploration industry in West Africa. Start date for the …
Collaboration between the CSIRO’s Minerals Down Under and Australia’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has led to the development of a new massively paralleled detector for fast element mapping in X-ray fluorescence-based analyses. Read more
June 25, 2010. Durango, Mexico- SGS is pleased to announce the opening of a new sample preparation facility in Guerrero, Mexico to service the growing needs of the minerals exploration industry. The Guerrero facility will offer exploration sample preparation and …
SGS is pleased to announce the acquisition of Verilab SA in Antofagasta, Chile. From its laboratory in Antofagasta, Verilab performs exploration and grade control analysis using fire assay, wet chemistry and instrumental techniques, principally for the mining industry in Northern …
The new Spectroil Q100 was designed from the ground up with the user, the application, and the in-service oil analysis laboratory in mind. It uses the same technology and design concepts that Spectro has successfully applied over the years to the Spectroil M family of spectrometers. It is the next step in design and performance [...]
An innovative technology that could potentially help some coal-based power generation facilities comply with anticipated new mercury emissions standards was successfully demonstrated in a recently concluded milestone project at a Michigan power plant. Under a co-operative agreement with the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), WE Energies demonstrated the TOXECON process [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific, a leader in serving science, has added a new and powerful addition to its range of automated optical emission and X-ray fluorescence spectrometers. As an alternative to single spectrometer automation, the new Thermo Scientific ARL SMS-3500 integrates multiple standalone laboratory instruments, including sample preparation, in an automated cell to optimise the analytical [...]
MaptekTM I-SiteTM laser scanning expertise and software technology is being used to map the geology and layout of the deepest underground laboratory to be established in the USA. The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab (DUSEL) in the former Homestake …
Underground coal mine operators are moving aggressively to comply with the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006 at the same time as they voluntarily push to formalise new risk management practices designed to help the industry …
SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has opened an instrument demonstration and application laboratory along with a direct sales, service and marketing office in Tokyo near Shinagawa station to better serve its growing Japanese customer base. “We are very pleased with our new …
(Neponset IL)—Cooperative research programs with industry leaders to solve identified material handling problems are a significant part of the mission of Martin Engineering’s new Center for Bulk Materials Handling Innovation (CFI). Part pure-science research laboratory, and part industrial product development …
Ruggedized to suit field and travel conditions, the R-series QEMSCAN® is a key part of the ‘lab-in-a-box’ mobile, selfcontained laboratory concept outlined in the December 2007 Sift….more at MEI Online
(Neponset IL)—There is something interesting—at least, for heavy industry–going on in the cornfields outside rural Neponset, Illinois. In Neponset, a privately-held company is completing a new corporate research center focused on improving the handling of bulk materials in heavy industries, …
JKTech Pty – the technology transfer company for the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) in Australia – has partnered with the ALS Laboratory Group – an international leader in analytical testing services – to form ALS Mineralogy. With JKTech's …
Orezone Gold Corporation (ORE:TSX) is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of its Sega Gold Project ("Sega") in Burkina Faso to Cluff Gold plc (Cluff) for total consideration of approximately US$26.5M.